Derren Brown has caught the public imagination with his stunt of prediciting the national Lottery numbers in live time. The internet is buzzing with questions on how he did it with several answers being provided.
It begs the question though - Should Gospel magicians or preachers use prediction type tricks to share the Christian message. Some Christians feel that mind reading and the like is beyond the pale and should not be used at all. I disagree.
I use mentalism and prediction tricks all the time. My message at then is usually a confession that I really can't predict the future . . . but I do know someone who has the future in his hands - Jesus Christ. Sometimes that leads to a Biblical message about the amazing fulfillment of prohecies in the Bible.
So where can we go to learn some of these tricks? Of course you can find one or two Gospel magic mind reading tricks at http://www.gospelemagic.com/ but if you really want to get into Mentalism magic at a deeper level then checkout the following website on How to be a Master Mentalist:
It begs the question though - Should Gospel magicians or preachers use prediction type tricks to share the Christian message. Some Christians feel that mind reading and the like is beyond the pale and should not be used at all. I disagree.
I use mentalism and prediction tricks all the time. My message at then is usually a confession that I really can't predict the future . . . but I do know someone who has the future in his hands - Jesus Christ. Sometimes that leads to a Biblical message about the amazing fulfillment of prohecies in the Bible.
So where can we go to learn some of these tricks? Of course you can find one or two Gospel magic mind reading tricks at http://www.gospelemagic.com/ but if you really want to get into Mentalism magic at a deeper level then checkout the following website on How to be a Master Mentalist:
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